Middle and High School. 1. Each teacher shall be provided preparation time which shall be equal to one (1) full class period during the instructional day with such time being free from specific duty assignments.
2. In schools where block schedules are followed, teachers shall have available to them, a minimum of 400 minutes of preparation time in each consecutive two week period.
Middle and High School. The ratio of pupils to teachers and other professional staff members shall not exceed 27 to 1. It is recommended that, except in certain activity type classes, such as physical education, music and study hall, the total average pupil load for teachers within a department not exceed 150 pupils per day. The recommended class size is not more than 30 pupils except as noted below:
1. Language 25 pupils 2. Science Laboratory 25 pupils 3. Practical Arts and Other Fine Arts 25 pupils 4. Technology (computers, business, tech ed., etc.) 25 pupils
C. The Board recognizes that appropriate text, library reference facility, computers, maps and globes, laboratory equipment, audio-visual equipment, art supplies, athletic equipment, current periodicals, standard tests and questionnaires and similar materials are the tools of the teaching profession. Every teacher shall turn in a requisition to the Board by June 15 of each school year or by such other date as may be designated by the Superintendent of Schools. The teacher will be informed by August 1 or as soon as possible thereafter as to whether the requisition shall be approved by the Board in full, in part, or not at all. The parties will confer from time to time for the purpose of improving the selection or use of such educational materials and the Board undertakes promptly to implement all joint decisions thereupon made by its representative and the Association. The Board will continue its efforts to keep the school reasonably and properly equipped and maintained.
D. Under no conditions shall a teacher be required to drive a school bus as part of his regular assignment.
E. Telephone facilities shall be made available to teachers for their reasonable use. Personal long-distance calls may not be charged to the school district.
F. Adequate parking facilities shall be available to the teachers for their exclusive use whenever practical.
G. A teacher expecting to be absent shall notify their building principal (or designate) in adequate time to obtain a substitute, if available (normally by 7:00 a.m.). All teachers shall maintain a lesson plan book including class roster with lesson outline indicated so as to enable substitute teachers to be as effective as possible. This lesson plan book shall be available for use by the substitute teacher, and its usual location shall be known to the principal.
H. Multi-level shall be defined as a K-5 combined classroom where two (2) separate grade levels with two (2) separate curricula...
Middle and High School. When an employee agrees to substitute during their duty-free preparation period the employee shall be compensated at their normal per diem rate of pay.
Middle and High School. Duty-free lunch period: Every Middle and High School teacher will have a duty-free lunch period of at least thirty (30) minutes. Every Middle and High School teacher will have at least one (1) preparation period per day free of student supervision or other duties. Preparation periods shall not be taken away from teachers to cover a class, except when an emergency arises. In the event of such emergency, teachers will be paid $25.00 per period from which assigned to such service from the first such occurrence and thereafter.
Middle and High School. 11.7.2.1 Full-time middle school /high school employees shall receive daily preparation time to total not less than three hundred sixty-five (365) minutes per week.
11.7.2.2 Full-time middle school/high school employees shall receive one instructional period for the days that follow a regular bell schedule per day during student contact time.
11.7.2.3 For high school, during finals week, members shall receive no less than the minimum of one (1) testing period for preparation.
Middle and High School. A teacher who acts as a substitute teacher shall be paid $60 per block.
Middle and High School. If a teacher’s average daily student contact exceeds a daily average of thirty (30) students per cohort, the teacher shall be compensated at the rate of $24 per student per month in which student contact exceeds that average.
Middle and High School. One (1) day of each month or ten (10) days per school year for department/grade level meetings of one (1) hour duration.
Middle and High School. Present full time certificated employees in the middle and high school shall be entitled to at least one planning period per day equivalent in time to one teaching period.
Middle and High School time equivalent to one (1) class period during the student day. This time shall not, to the extent possible, be preempted for duty or activities unrelated to planning and preparation. A regularly scheduled study-hall shall not be considered a preparation/conference period, except at the teacher’s choice.
